All Blog Posts Tagged 'pledge' (6)

I got my first purity ring on my own, when I was still a Christian, in 2010. I understood the basics of the pledge involved---no sex before marriage, basically. I didn't take any classes, as I was away from both home a church to call home at the time, but I still wanted a purity ring. So one Farmer's Market outing later, I found a ring that was perfect---a plain band with a design on it (I later figured out that it was of elephants following each other). I printed out a Purity Pledge, and…

The schoolroom staple didn't originally include "under God," even though it was created by an ordained minister

By Jeffrey Owen Jones Smithsonian magazine, November 2003,

Hiya. My name is Ash...I go to a high school in the state of Georgia, and I am currently taking AP US History.I do not say the pledge, and I do not stand.I do not say it because I know America is not "under God" and I know there is not "liberty and justice for all."I choose not to stand because I don't want to stand for a country, that I believe, does not stand for me.I have not stood for the pledge since 8th grade, and I'm currently in 11th. I have never had any…

How irresponsible and wasteful! No matter which side of the political teater-totter you sit on, most of us aren't happy with the current financial situation; both in the economy and in the government. I'm no financial whiz, but I know that right now the government should not be spending thousands (or more likely tens of thousands) of dollars of tax payer money to add a few engravings to the United States Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) (… Continue

Radley Balko at the Agitator and Jason Kuznicki at Positive Liberty wonder at the wisdom of Michael Newdow and other atheists' attempts to strike "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. Their beef? Per Balko:

Seems to me that the real problem here—whether you’re atheist, agnostic, or devout—is the idea that we’re forcing school…